John Gibson Gallery: The Early Years
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Cara Perlman: Finger-Paint Portraits, Tin Pan Alley, 1981–82
CollectionsPerlman’s portraits, executed with a painting method typically used by children, fit broadly into the 1980s wave of neo-expressionism but they go way beyond that context. -
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Fine Arts Photography, Ephemera From Light Gallery, 1971–1987
CollectionsThe rise of photography as an art collectible has largely taken place over the last fifty years and much credit can be given to Light Gallery (1971–87), the first gallery to exclusively represent “artist photographers.”… -
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Colette: On the Streets and in the Clubs, 1972–1985
CollectionsColette worked without inhibition. Acting out an inner-world of fantasies she began making photographic self-portraits, creating soft fabric environments in which she was often a crucial living presence, and exhibiting self-referential hybrid works that combined sculpture, painting, and photography. -
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Guerrilla Girls: Feminist Street Posters, 1985–1991
CollectionsWhen the Guerrilla Girls began wheatpasting their first posters on walls in Soho and Tribeca in 1985 they introduced a provocative new type of politicized street art that had an almost immediate effect. Rooted in an era when women were increasingly conscious of widespread inequalities in America, the Guerrilla Girls… -
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No Wave and Independent Film
CollectionsThe No Wave and Independent films produced in downtown New York in the 1970s and 1980s are an intriguing hybrid art form that intermingles music, fashion, performance and visual art. -
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IGTimes: Urban Street Culture, 1984–1994
CollectionsAmong the underground publications of the 1970s and 80s IGTimes has the distinction of being the first periodical devoted to New York street and subway art. -
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Andy Warhol Ephemera: Cards, Posters, Magazines, Photos (before Feb. 22, 1987)
CollectionsGallery 98 has been sorting through our Andy Warhol ephemera with the goal of dividing it into two online collections. This first of these features items from before the artist’s death in February 1987. The second looks at posthumous Warhol ephemera from the time of his death to the… -
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Anton Perich’s NIGHT Magazine Studio 54, Club Culture and Art, 1978-79
CollectionsNIGHT was the creation of artist and photographer Anton Perich who, inspired by Andy Warhol’s Interview, made the decision to publish his own magazine using his own money. … -
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40 Top Art Events of the Downtown Era: A Timeline, 1974–1992
CollectionsThe Downtown Era began in the 1970s, when aspiring artists of the baby-boomer generation arrived in New York. Over the next two decades, they would radically change the art world, opening it up to new forms of media, new modes of exhibiting art, and new social perspectives. -
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Anton Perich: Electric Brushstrokes, 1978–1989
CollectionsA childhood tinkerer and an aspiring inventor, Perich achieved success in 1977 by creating a machine that automatically produced a sequence of lines with an airbrush activated by a photocell reacting to the lights and darks of projected images. -
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Talk is Cheap: A Street Poster Exhibition, 1984
CollectionsIn the 1970s and 80s much of downtown New York lay in decay but amidst the economic squalor a surprising art renaissance emerged along the district’s streets and walls. Most people remember the graffiti from that period but of equal interest was the profusion of street posters. This was the… -
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The Night Time Is The Right Time: N.Y.C. Nightclub Ephemera, 1980s
CollectionsBy the 1980s dozens of new nightclubs and bars including Area, Danceteria, Mudd Club, and Paradise Garage consciously strove to be part of the art world by presenting new music, art, film, video, fashion, and performance.
